The Washington critic., 1887-06-11
REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING.

Few real estate deals OF any consequence
were made during the past week. The
market opened very quietly and continued
80. No new. booms were started. The
largest sale was that Of tract Of land on
the Columbia road, lying to the north OF
Washington Heights, near the head OF
Nineteenth street extended, and known as
"ClifTbourne." The property contains is
acres, and was once the home OF John
Quincy Adams. Afterward II belonged to
General N. L. Jeffries, Hon. John b. Alley
and ex.secretary Robson. The purchasers
were Presbrey & Green, through Mrs. May
Cole Baker, and the price paid was $ll0,-
600. The property was owned by Miss f.
ii. Ober, late manager OF the Boston Ideal
Opera Company, who 1t will be remcm-
bered, purchased II In turn from ex.Secre-
tary Robson last November for the sum Of
$4,000. The property has been divided
into building lots and placed In the hands
OF Fitch, Fox & Brown for sale.
Few other sales worthy OF notice were
made. @. @. Duncanson, trustee, sold to
Congressman William Walter Phelps of
and "a, in square CSC. This property Is near
the Capitol, in the block bounded by Della
ware avenue, First street east, and b aud
streets north. The price paid was $23, 1907.
The next largest was that Of j. Sprigg Poole
to Samuel Rosenthal, ir., Of lots Il and IL,
In square 1856, south Of the Agricultural De-
partment, and bounded by Thirteen-and-a a.
half, Fourteenth, and and d streets south
east.
Eugene Carusi, trustee, has sold to Thos.
v. Hammond, for $4,000, lot 8, Of Samuel
Davidson's subdivision Of lots in square
1877, fronting 20 feet 0 inches on IL street
north, with a depth OF l49 feet, running
back to an alley and parallel with Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets west.
The building boom In the northeast Sec
tion continues. The houses to be erected
are, however, mostly small two.story
dwellings, costing from $500 to So 00C
apiece. The improvement of streets. the
appropriation for which will be available
July /, has materially had. the effect
Of Increasing the value OF property In
this section, and the majority OF house
hunters are on the lookout for suitable
dwellings east OF the Capitol. Mr.. w. O.
Burford will erect on = street, between NJ
and N streets, eleven two-story and man
sard roof bricks. The houses will @ eich con
tain nine rooms and q bathroom and will
cost $24 200. Mr.. Burford will also erect on
James street, between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth, and and ii streets, ten small brick
houses to cost $4,000. s. c. and c. NJ
Clark will likewise build five brick dwell
streets northeast. The cost will be $15,0C0
The only notable building additions tt
the southeast section are three handsom,
dwellings, fitted as stores on the grount
floor, now nearly completed, which Mr.
Theodore j. Meyer, the partner OF Gait, th
feed merchant, is erecting on the grount
made vacant by the recent fire, which de
stroyed the buildings then occupied by Thos
b. Marche and others, situated on Pennsyl
vaDia avenue, between Second and Thirt
streets southeast. The buildings will b
four stories In height, with pressed bricl
fronts, finished In black mortar. Eacl
will have front OF twenty feet on Pennsyl
vania avenue. As soon as completed tw,
of them will be occupied by Lew Callisher
the jeweler, and Joseph Waltemeyer, gen
tlemen's furnishings.
The extension OF Pennsylvania avenu
and the building Of the new bridge acros
the Eastern Branch has had the effect o
increasing property In that section. Sew
eral booms are reported, but none as ye
have reached definite proportions.